Australia identity, fear and governance in the 21st century

The latter years of the first decade of the twenty-first century were characterised by an enormous amount of challenge and change to Australia and Australians. In this volume we consider these recent challenges and changes and how Australians themselves feel about them under three themes: identity,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Pietsch, Juliet, author (author), Aarons, Haydn, author
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Canberra, Australia : Australian National University 2012.
Edición:1st ed
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419967606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social attitudes towards contemporary challenges facing Australia
  • Keeping our distance: non-Indigenous/Aboriginal relations in Australian society
  • Australian engagement with Asia: Towards closer political, economic and cultural ties
  • Minority religious identity and religious social distance in Australia
  • Are neighbourhood Incivilities associated with fear of crime?
  • Terrorism and public opinion in Australia
  • Are we keeping the bastards honest? Perceptions of corruption, integrity and influence on politics
  • A new role for government? Trends in social policy preferences since the mid-1980s
  • Work choices: an electoral issue and its social, political and attitudinal cleavages
  • How do Australians search for jobs?